City may ask Rancho del Oro residents to approve fee to pay for streetlights

lighting-tax district proposed

Weiss said the replacement streetlights he’s suggesting are concrete but shaded so they’re a little more decorative than the city’s standard streetlights.

Neighborhood resident John Hacker said he lives in a newer section of the Villages of Rancho Del Oro where the streetlights aren’t rusting. The lights are metal but they’re set in concrete bases so they’re less likely to rust, Hacker said.

“Our lights are fine. It’s the ones that were put in the ’80s that are failing,” Hacker said. He said he’s not too keen on creating an assessment district.

“We’re having to pay for lights other people put in and didn’t take care of and that’s not fair,” Hacker said.